Oana-Maria Cojocaru is a social and cultural historian focusing on the Middle Byzantine period. Her research interests are primarily on historical childhood and youth, family life, disability, and emotions with a particular focus on everyday life experiences. After she received her PhD from the University of Oslo (2016) she was a fellow at the Research Institute in the Humanities, University of Bucharest (2017-2018), and held various postdoctoral positions in Sweden, at the Umeå University (2019-2021), in Finland, at the Tampere Institute for Advance Studies (2021-2023) and in Romania, at the New Europe College (2023-2024).
She has co-edited the volume Childhood in History: Perceptions of Children in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds (Routledge 2018), and published a monograph, Byzantine Childhood Representations and Experiences of Children in Middle Byzantine Society (Routledge 2021). She has another co-edited volume, Pursuing Hope in the Premodern World, forthcoming from Palgrave.